Imprisonment Ball

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Imprisonment Ball
懲役ボール
Chōeki Bōru
Alternate names	Hokaku Kōdan Meteo Psychokinesis Containment Ball Psycho Lock Smasher I May Die This Time You Might Die This Time Such Beautiful Fireworks! You May Not Survive This Time!
Debut	Manga: "Aerial Battle" Anime: "Clash of the Super Powers"
Appears in
Inventor	Frieza
Users	Frieza Belmod Android 17 Chamel Moro
Color	&       &
Class	Energy Sphere
Similar Techniques	Cocotte Zone Charging Ultra Buu Buu Volleyball Hell's Buster Death Psycho Bomb Sealed Light Beam Time Bullet

Imprisonment Ball (懲役ボール, Chōeki Bōru) is a psychokinetic technique used by Frieza in his final form.

Overview

Frieza using the attack

Frieza appears behind the opponent and holds his hand out, ensnaring them in an inescapable golden sphere of energy. He then toys around with this containment like a soccer ball. When Frieza is finished beating the victim around, he kicks the ball away, where it detonates on contact with anything other than Frieza himself. The resulting implosion is so immense it creates a vacuum that sucks in anybody nearby.

Usage and Power

Frieza uses this attack during his battle against Goku on Namek. When Goku blasts through a large landmass Frieza threw at him, Frieza appears behind him and captures him with the Imprisonment Ball. Frieza spends time smacking Goku around and fires an enormous energy wave at the sphere, blasting it crashing into Planet Namek. However, it is revealed that in the instant between the impact and the explosion, Goku is fast enough to escape not only the explosion, but the vacuum as well.

Destroyer Top paralyzed

In the anime version of the Tournament of Power, Frieza utilized an Imprisonment Ball to paralyze Top. While it held him long enough for Frieza to deliver a barrage of attacks, Top broke free by powering up.

Variations

• Death Psychokinesis - A combination of Imprisonment Ball and Psychic Rock Throw used by Frieza in his final form.

Belmod's ki based version of the attack

In the manga, Belmod uses a ki based variation of this technique to trap the other Gods of Destruction, holding them before attacking with his energy cards.

In the anime, Android 17 uses his own variant of this technique using the Android Barrier.

Moro's magic version of the technique

Later, Moro uses a magic version of this technique to halt Ultra Instinct Sign Goku from using his hands and feet. Moro uses it again to imprison a stunned Seven-Three before absorbing him.

Chamel also uses a magic version of this technique to trap the Demon Gods during the Dark Empire Saga.

Video Game Appearances

Named Meteo Psychokinesis, the technique is Frieza's Meteor Attack in Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22.

Frieza uses the technique in Budokai Tenkaichi 3

It is one of Frieza's Blast 2 attacks in his final form in the Budokai Tenkaichi series; it was originally named Psycho Lock Smasher (サイコロックスマッシャー, Psycho Lock Smasher) in Budokai Tenkaichi 2, but was oddly changed to I May Die This Time (今度は死ぬかもね, I May Die This Time) in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. The technique is named You Might Die This Time in the Raging Blast series and Dragon Ball Z For Kinect; in Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, instead of Frieza simply tossing the ball back to the ground, he kicks it around for a while until kicking it to the ground.

In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors, Frieza uses it as a grapple throw. In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2, he uses the technique as part of his team attack with Zarbon and Dodoria, the Blind Meteor.

Frieza also uses this technique in Super Dragon Ball Z.

In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Frieza Race members use an unnamed variation of this technique when the Ki Blast button is held down. In this version the user takes the same stance Frieza does when performing the Imprisonment Ball, yet it takes the form of a Ki Blast that paralyzes the opponent when it hits. However this prevents the user from firing volleys of standard Ki Blasts like other characters.

In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Charged Ki Blast: Paralyzing Type appears as a variation of the technique where the user fires a Charged Ki Blast using the Imprisonment Ball stance which takes the form of a Ki Blast that paralyzing opponents when it hits. However unlike in Xenoverse this technique is not exclusive to Frieza's Race as it can be applied to the Future Warrior by equipping certain Super Souls and functions as a Charged Ki Blast rather than a standard one.

In Dragon Ball Legends, it appears under the name Such Beautiful Fireworks! as the Ultimate Move Arts for Legends Limited 1st Form Frieza. However if his Ultimate Move Arts can KO the final enemy, it turns into his Legendary Finish which replaces Imprisonment Ball with his Genocide of the Saiyans-style Supernova.

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Imprisonment Ball appears as one of Frieza's attacks under the name of "You May Not Survive This Time!".

Gallery

The explosion the attack creates once it hits the ground Frieza prepares the Imprisonment Ball Frieza holds Top in the ball Top powers up to break out Frieza uses his Imprisonment Ball in Supersonic Warriors 2 Frieza uses the technique in Super Dragon Ball Z Frieza uses You Might Die This Time in Raging Blast 2 Frieza's You Might Die This Time in Raging Blast 2